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Control Room
An interactive live performance (visuals & light) with a dystopian view of the technological era where people become absorbed by social media and devices (Stage 1), going through a dehumanization process (Stage 2) until they’re reduced to lines of codes and bytes of data (Stage 3).
How does it work?
Stage 1: performers use the smartphone to live stream images, creating a social media inception on the screens. Sudden movements of the smartphone will trigger the screens to change transmissions, creating thus an overwhelming feeling that the internet is watching your every move. Performers have free range of movement.
Stage 2: The dehumanization process is limiting the movements of the dancers.
Stage 3: Performers are reduces to lines of code, they're "stuck" in repetitive movements, alluding to the algorithm iterative process. Their human identity is fully erased, now covered by full body projections that track the movements. Certain body positions will trigger the change of the visuals in the background as well as the body projections.
Software used: TouchDesigner, Wekinator
This performance is the work of an interdisciplinary and international group, comprised of students from:
- DN MADe light management option, Lycée Branly (Lyon)
- MD, Interactive Technologies For Performative And Media Arts, CINETic UNATC (Bucharest)
- Drama/movement/dance: Leipziger Tanztheater, Centre de Formation Désoblique Lyon.
- Choreography, artistic direction (Natacha Paquignon)
Proposed by the Platform of young Franco-German creation, in partnership with the Fête des Lumières, the Consulate General of Germany in Lyon, the Cie Corps Au Bord. With the support of the City and Metropolis of Lyon, the City of Leipzig and the Franco-German Office for Youth.